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Instructive reading on the natural sciences for the whole family

[ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS].
Geillustreerde familie-bibliotheek tot Verbreiding van Nuttige Kennis.

Richly illustrated with full-page plates and numerous woodengraved illustrations in text, many also full-page.

Leyden, A.W. Sythoff, 1859-1860. 10 vols. 4to. Uniform blue cloth, spine gilt decorated. Richly illustrated with full-page plates and numerous woodengraved illustrations in text, many also full-page.

Richly and attractively illustrated popular series, the "Illustrated Family Library", with instructive reading on various subjects. Offered here is the second series, complete in 10 volumes, devoted to natural sciences, composed as follows:

I. LUCHT EN WOLKEN, mededelingen over de Natuurkunde van den Dampkring en zijne verschijnselen. Naar het Hoogduitsch van H. Birnbaum. With a.o. a fine plate of an air-balloon seen double in the air, and illustrations on various experiments. X, 271 pp.
II-III. DE PLANTENWERELD. Kruidkundige Reis om de wereld. Proeve eener Kruidkunde in verband tot de Kennis van den Aardbol. Naar het Hoogduitsch van K. Muller. Eerste-Tweede deel. With numerous plates and illustrations of herbs and landscapes from all over the world. XIV, 314; 246, (1) pp.
IV. DE WONDEREN VAN DEN STERRENHEMEL, voor Beschaafden uit alle standen en alle vrienden der Natuur. Naar het Hoogduitsch van O. Ule, door H.M.C. van Oosterzee. With a fine frontispiece with portraits of famous astronomists, like Newton, Keppler, Tycho Brahe, Laplace, etc. grouped around the full-length portrait of Copernicus, and numerous illustrations of telescopes, the stars, the moon, etc., with a folding map of the universe at the end. X, 470 pp.
V-VI. DE AARDBOL. Eene Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Aarde en harer Bewoners. Naar het Hoogduitsch van G.H.O. Volger, door T.C. Winkler. Eerste-Tweede deel. With a.o. a fine view of Naples and the Vesuve, a bird's eye's view of Venice, and many plates of animals, of exotic landscapes, costumes, etc. X, 301; VIII, 356 pp.
VII. DE WONDEREN VAN HET MIKROSKOOP, of De Natuur beschouwd in hare kleinste voortbrengselen. Voor vrienden der natuur bewerkt door M. Willkomm. With a.o. a fine frontispiece with microscopic observations printed in blue, illustrations of the microscope and of all sorts of microscopic observations. (4), 258 pp.
VIII-IX. DE GEOLOGIE voor Beschaafde Lezers bevattelijk ehandeld. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door T.C. Winkler. Eerste-Tweede deel. With a.o. 12 lithographed tinted plates, one folding, showing various geological formations, and numerous woodengraved plates and illustrations in text. (6), 227; (4), 204 pp.
X. DE WATERWERELD. Beelden en Schetsen voor jong en oud. Naar het Hoogduitsch van H. Stahl. With a.o. a fine frontispiece of collapsing icebergs printed in blue, tinted lithographed view of the Bosporus, and of the Falls of Itamarati in Brazil, and numerous woodengravings of waterscapes, etc. VIII, 216 pp.

Good complete set.

Related Subjects: 19th Century Dutch Encyclopædic Works

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